Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jonathan Karp, the editor of Senator Edward Kennedy’s posthumously published memoir True Compass, was a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal the other morning. He discussed the Senator’s version of the disastrous 1979 CBS interview with Roger Mudd. The two men sat...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 21 September 1972, RN announced the establishment of an Advisory Committee on the Economic Role of Women within the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He wrote: Women are playing an increasingly important role in the economy of our Nation. We in this...
Sep 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today, Irving Kristol died at the age of 89 in Arlington, Virginia. The New York Times obituary calls him the “Godfather of Conservatism;” the Washington Post’s obit is headlined “Architect of Neoconservatism.” Either way, there is no...
Sep 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jack Kightlinger, the US Army Signal Corps photographer who was assigned to the White House in 1967 and visually chronicled five presidencies from Lyndon Johnson’s to Ronald Reagan’s, tragically died on Monday when the car in which he and his wife were...
Sep 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There must be something in the water over at the Daily Beast where posts sympathetic to RN (albeit unintended and/or inadvertent) have now appeared twice in three days. First it was Chris Matthews’ admiring exposition of the role Edward Kennedy and a panoply of...
